Feodor Sychkov, Preparing for the wedding
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FEODOR VASILIEVICH SYCHKOV
Russia 1870-1958
Preparing for the wedding
Signed and dated 1915. Gouache, 68 x 98 cm.
Sychkov was born into a peasant family, and his introduction to art was through icon painting, which he studied for a year and then took up as a fulltime profession from 18871892. In 1892, however, he moved to St. Petersburg in order to attend drawing classes under Klavdi Lebedev, Ivan Tvorozhnikov and Jan Tsionglinsky, he completed the sixyear course in three years. In 1895, he continued his artistic education by attending classes at the Imperial Academy as a voluntary student and particularly enjoyed Repin's classes, in later life, he was to consider himself Repin's disciple. In 1908, he visited Italy, France and Germany, and on his return to Russia settled in his native village.
His perennial subject matter was village life, and the revolution had little effect on his art. For a while the Bolsheviks ignored him, as his canvases did not fit in with the heroic socialist avantgarde of the 1920s. Later, thanks to his peasant roots, the Soviet authorities came to admire him as one of their own, but this did not prevent one critic from remarking that his preRevolutionary canvases showed peasants not as they really were, but as Sychkov would like them to have been. Enormously popular both in Russia and abroad, his paintings continued to be sent to exhibitions abroad, and his better, earlier works, of which this is a fine and unusually large example, are more likely to be found in foreign private collections than in Russian museums.
Auktionsnummer:
2270
Datum:
2016-06-08